“We’ve all been there. Sitting in the car trying to join a conference call. You either fumble with or drop your phone while trying to connect or you forget the long PIN code to join. It’s not the best way to start an important call in the car. On top of that your attention is not where it should be — on the road,” says Anders Tylman-Mikiewicz, vice president consumer connectivity services at Volvo Car Group.
The addition of Skype for Business is another big step forward for the company’s connectivity and communication offer, and “just the beginning of a completely new way of looking at how we spend time in the car,” Tylman-Mikiewicz says.
Volvo is also exploring using Cortana, Microsoft’s intelligent personal assistant, with the goal of adding seamless voice recognition and contextual insights to predict people’s needs and support their daily lives.
“Volvo Cars is leading the way in its recognition that the nature of work is increasingly mobile,” says Ben Canning, director of product management for Skype for Business at Microsoft. “People need to be productive from anywhere — including their cars.”
